The correct reponse would have been to say "You need to set up at XXX (where XXX is the place where evacuees are processed and triaged prior to being sent on), and Officer Smith here will guide you to where you can set up"
Pissing away a 100-man MASH unit is NOT my idea of good resource utilization
There is no evidence that didn't happen. The good doc didn't want to hear it. He wanted to go to NOLA. He is a Chapel Hill blue zoner....he wanted the press for being turned away.
He wanted to tell the tale till his dying day about how the he was rebuffed.